, 1887-02-23
WINTER NOTES.
Common Occurrences in and About
the City.
Matters of Minor Importance
Hastily Gathered.

II was extremely dull at the court
house yesterday.
The @. A: r. ball at Keefe's hall last
evening was a grand success.
A large majority of the business places
In the city were closed yesterday.
Flags were hoisted in various parts of
the city in honor of Washington's birth
day.
ID. Fisk has taken a contract for put
ting in 5000 tons Of ice for the railroad
company.
Warren Richardson put up Il tall iron
flag staff, and hoisted a large American
flag at the Tivoli corner yesterday.
Julius Jorgensen and wife yesterday
sold to Adelaide Sargent lot 5 in block
535, in this city. Consideration 1915.
Several belligerently disposed individu-
ais were arrested by the police yeste rday
morning and locked up in the calaboose.
Work on the new depot is progressing
fast and iavorably, and the new building
has begun to assume stately proportions.
If Cheyenne gets the Union Pacific
shops, mills, ETC.. there will be a large
increase in its population within the next
year.
The Burlington & Missouri surveyors
have been surveying south of Cheyenne
for several years, but the railroad fails to
make its appearance.
A grand shooting tournament will
prob ably be given in this city this sum-
mer, to which all the crack trap shots in
the West will be invited.
There has been an unusual amount of
sickness among small children in Chcy-
enne this winter, owing to the open win
ter and an unusual amount of wind.
Several Grand Army men, with Cap
Smith as chairman of the committee,
were actively engaged for the greater part
of the time yesterday decorating Keefe's
hall.
One Of the attractions on Ferguson
street yesterday afternoon was a man
trying to ride bicycle. The bicycle was
ON the uppermost side one-half the time
at least.
A cripple who had become unduly in
spired with fire water, did a vast amount
of interviewing on Sixteenth street yes
terday. Two bits was the amount he
charged for his talk.
Nh. and Mrs. A. w. Terry's children,
all of whom have been very sick, with
two of them at the point of death, for
some days, are now much better and are
considered out of danger.
Two roosters in separate cages, which
were hung up in Keefe's hall on Monday
night, on the occasion Of the masquerade
ball, were left hanging there until near
the middle of yesterday afternoon.
Superintendent Nolan states that the
hydrants have not frozen up this winter;
that there is plenty of water in Crow
creek. and that it will be turned into
Lake Minnehaha as soon as the ice lar
vest is over.
A significant siga is the unexpected
appearance of wild geese flying north,
which was noticed yesterday by a gentle
man living seven miles south of the city.
This seems to be a sign of an early break
ing up of winter. 1t is a month ahead
Of the customary time for the appearance
of wild geese on their long northward
journey. Perhaps they have made a
mistake, and are bigger geese than any
body has taken them to be.
THE LEADER Office has now filled all
back orders for the marvellous library, and
for the accommodation Of subscribers a
hundred additional sets of the library have
been obtained from the publishers. Here
after orders will be filed at this Office
Immediately upon receipt. The forty-ive
books will be mailed, postpaid, to sub
subscribers for fifty cents in addition to
the subscription price. Non subscribers
can obtain the library for Sl.5O, postpaid.
Send remittances by postal note, money
order, draft or registered letter to Pub
Usher LEADER, Cheyenne, Wyo.